Famous quotes containing the words brother and/or earl:
“A gorgeous example of denial is the story about the little girl who was notified that a baby brother or sister was on the way. She listened in thoughtful silence, then raised her gaze from her mother’s belly to her eyes and said, “Yes, but who will be the new baby’s mommy?””
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“Six, or at most seven, hours’ sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody can want: more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)